Mountain Meteorology

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Mountain Meteorology "The book has very pleasant format, the text is nicely laid out, and the fiqures are, on the whole, superb, making use of excellent, didactic graphics and sketches ... represents a most useful contribution to our understanding of weather and climate processes in complex terrain. It is indeed are to encounter such a wealth of diffrent topic, particularly those that are dealt with in the final section"

C. David Whiteman is a Staff Scientist at the United States Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, where he does research in mountain meteorology, boundary layer meteorology, and air pollution meteorology. He also teaches meteorology at Washington State University, is a Certified Consulting Meteorologist, and serves as an editor of the Journal of Applied Meteorology.

Preface; About the author; Acknowledgments; PART 1. MOUNTAIN CLIMATES; 1. Four factors that determine climate; PART 2. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ATMOSPHERE; 2. Mountain climates of North America; 3. Atmospheric scales of motion and atmospheric composition; 4. Vertical structure, temperature, stability and the atmospheric boundary layer; 5. Pressure and winds; 6. Air masses and fronts; 7. Clouds and fogs; 8. Precipitation; 9. Weather maps, forecasts and data; PART 3. MOUNTAIN WINDS; 10. Terrain-forced flows; 11. Diurnal mountain winds; PART 4. SELECTED APPLICATIONS OF MOUNTAIN METEOROLOGY; 12. Air pollution dispersion; 13. Fire weather and smoke management; 14. Aerial spraying; References; Appendices; Glossary; Acronyms; Abbreviations; Index